Drunken-driving arrests plague Central Indiana police agencies, but help could be on the way

4:45 PM,
Aug. 26, 2013

Christopher Dyer and Ronald Santa.

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Indiana State Police trooper Christopher Dyer's blood-alcohol content was three times the level at which a driver is considered intoxicated, police say, when they arrested him on suspicion of waving a weapon inside a Fishers restaurant Aug. 18.

Five days earlier, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer Ronald Santa was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after testing 0.10 while driving a marked police vehicle.

The situations Dyer and Santa found themselves in aren't rare. In the past three years, more than a dozen local law enforcement officers have been arrested on ...